Are you optimizing for Ink?

[2_much]

I was just wondering what people are doing as a result of the latest change with Yahoo.

1. Are you submitting new pages to Ink?
2. Optimizing pages that you've paid for?
3. Renewing Directory listings hoping for a boost?
4. Submitting new sites to the directory?

I'm not really doing any of these. What about you?

[jatar_k]

I may be one of the few but I never stopped and have always gotten good traffic from them (inktomi).

For every site I do I submit, bare minimum, 5 pages. I always renew my pages and always keep optimizing them. As far as submitting new sites to the directory, or renewing for that matter, I haven't done that in a while/yet but may start depending on how things shake out.

[steveb]

After the Yahoo news I was pleased (not) to find that my previous Ink submission showed up as two of my sites minor sub-pages. That's it. Main page nowhere in the index.

Fortunately my year expires on the 10th, so a couple days after that I'll try resubmitting it.

One thing I am doing is still keeping a meta keywords tag just in case Ink ever amounts to anything again.

[Robert Charlton]

I've always optimized for Inktomi along with Google and the other engines. In Inktomi, on-page factors are a bit more important, but that on-page optimization helps in Google too.

Also, I've relied on free Inktomi inclusion, and that's generally worked out in the long run, though there have been some dry spells where they took forever to add new pages. I'm wondering whether we're heading into another such dry spell now....

As for the Directory, for some sites I've considered it a liability... A Yahoo (company name) title isn't always as compelling as your own, and if you're doing well on Google, a Google listing in the Yahoo serps might be preferable. I'm not sure I see the Directory as a quick way into Inktomi, or a boost in Inktomi, or whatever people are thinking it might do for you. Directory category PageRank for Google, though, is one thing I look at carefully.

MSN, incidentally, can drive a lot of traffic, and Ink has generally been #2 for me after Google. It will be interesting to see how that will change.